TrueMotion helps cultural and creative organisations secure sustainable financing and increase the impact of their initiatives
Services
Strategic consultancy
If you're crafting a vision for your initiative or considering a long-term fundraising plan, you can benefit from our expertise and experience.
We can help your organisation harness diverse financial opportunities and ultimately generate more impact.
Fundraising consultancy
There's always potential to strengthen income streams for the long-term development of your cultural organisation or creative initiative.
We can identify the right funding sources and develop and implement your fundraising strategy — ethically, sustainably, and in line with your governance structure.
EU fundraising
The European Union offers a wealth of funding opportunities for initiatives big and small.
We specialise in developing successful EU fundraising strategies for emerging and even seasoned arts and culture organisers – from funding scans to application writing. And when you get the support you applied for, we stay by your side to help you manage the grant.
Impact services
The concept of impact is becoming ever more important in the arts and culture sectors. But how can you embed an impact mindset and practice into your projects?
We can help your organisation understand, measure, and achieve its maximum potential impact.
Partners for income and impact
Our clients are some of the most innovative names in the European cultural and creative sector
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Movies that Matter
Movies that Matter provides a platform for the screening and discussion of films that deal with human rights, sustainability and the fight against injustice. Movies that Matter is bringing the conversation around systematic social injustice out into the open.
TrueMotion stands behind their mission and is helping them spread their vision across Europe with the right grants.
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SPOT Groningen
The Oosterpoort in Groningen, managed by SPOT, is the most important pop and classical concert hall in the North of the Netherlands. It is getting old and will be replaced by a new concert hall called De Nieuwe Poort.
TrueMotion is engaged with the project with fundraising strategy, EU applications, community engagement planning and hands on support for implementation.
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CELA
A consortium of innovative literary organisations launched the talent development programme named Connecting European Literary Artists, or CELA under the coordination of Dutch literary agency Wintertuin.
TrueMotion has helped to set up the project design and secured three subsequent grants from the Creative Europe Programme – Large/scale Cooperation Projects strand. The partnership continues to this day, delivering great value to writers and translators alike.
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VRDays Europe
The VRDays Europe conference is organised annually to drive business and inspire creative minds in the exciting new sectors of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR).
With successful EU funding applications as well as monitoring and evaluation tools needed, TrueMotion have been helping the event grow their impact and sustain over the years.
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Prinses Christina Concours
Prinses Christina Concours aims to make Classical Music accessible. They support and stimulate young musicians by e.g. the Classic Concours and the worlds’ only Concertbus, The Classic Express.
TrueMotion researched the great impact of The Classic Express. And is currently developing the full impact management strategy for Prinses Christina Concours and their projects.
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ESNS Exchange
Since 2015, Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS), the largest exchange and networking platform showcasing emerging artists in the European pop music scene, has worked with TrueMotion to secure support for the European Talent Exchange Programme, now known as ESNS Exchange.
We raised private funds and successfully applied multiple times to the Creative Europe programme - Platforms strand, securing € 5.1 million of EU funding for the project period 2016-2024.
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Teyler's Museum Haarlem
Pieter Teyler was a prosperous Haarlem businessman and philanthropist. He left his estate, including his private house, to create a foundation on his death in 1778. The Museum was created six years later to show the public the latest marvels of science and art.
We were asked to help the Museum to write a Case for Support and create a capital fundraising strategy for the restorations that needed to be done. We gave training to Board Members in ‘making the ask’ and unlock support.
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Future Academy on Tour in Europe
Future Academy on Tour in Europe is a training programme of ZID Theatre, for migrant/refugee artists and creatives in five countries. Its goal is to find more jobs for migrants in the CCS.
At TrueMotion, we share ZID’s vision of more inclusive societies where artists can thrive no matter where they come from. So when they approached us to help them with a European Cooperation Project, we signed up right away.
OUR TEAM
Representing four nationalities, seven languages and living in three countries, we serve as a one-stop solution for all your fundraising and impact questions.
NEWS
With an incoming coalition government keen on drastic cuts to arts funding, the Dutch cultural and creative sector is bracing for a rough few years ahead. What can we learn from the lessons of the past?
Calls for proposals under the new Creative Europe programme are in full swing. Here are the top 5 lessons we took away from helping clients put together applications for a whole range of new cultural and creative projects.
With a wider scope and a doubled budget, the new Erasmus+ offers unprecedented opportunities in education, training, youth and sport. But what can cultural and creative organisations do to get involved in this €28.4 billion programme and help deliver results in a post-pandemic Europe? Actually, a lot.
The new Horizon Europe programme promises exciting new opportunities for the cultural and creative sector and a simpler, streamlined process for applications. We take a deep dive into the new framework to find out exactly what this newly launched, €95.5 billion funding source has to offer the CCS.